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In 1942 Gearoid O Cuinneagain, a young pro-Axis activist, founded Ailtiri na hAiseirghe ("Architects of the Resurrection"), a fascist movement that aimed to destroy the infant Irish democracy and replace it with a one-party totalitarian state. But Ailtiri na hAiseirghe was no Nazi imitator. Rather, it aimed at something far more ambitious: the fusion of totalitarianism and Christianity that would make Ireland a "missionary-ideological state" wielding global influence in the postwar era. Supported by idealistic youths and mainstream politicians like Ernest Blythe, Oliver J. Flanagan and Dan Breen-and scrutinised anxiously by British and American intelligence-Aiseirghe won several seats in the 1945 local government elections. Architects of the Resurrection casts an uncomfortable light on the popularity of anti-democratic, anti-Semitic and extremist ideas in wartime Ireland. Students of Irish history and of comparative fascism will find many new insights in this book.

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• Full title: Architects of the Resurrection
• Subtitle: Ailtiri Na HaiseIrghe and the Fascist 'New Order' in Ireland
• Author: R.M. Douglas
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780719079733
• ISBN: 071907973X
• ID: 04648309
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 634 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. June 2009

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